Word: majestã
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SENTENCED Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, received three years in prison in Thailand for breaking strict lèse-majest?? laws after insulting the Thai King in a self-published novel...
...hurt, and they have come through their personal torment, needing each other today with a degree of happiness that is freer and better than anything they had before." Wanda is at once mother, sister, friend, wife, adviser and sweetheart, guarding her husband against any real or perceived lèse majest??. "In the end," notes another family friend, "she believes faithfully and passionately that his genius is to play the piano like no one else around...
Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Lése-majest??? Not really, for these newer creations are merely variations, updated for life in the '70s, of the kind of durable, reliable characters an older generation of stars created. They are people who suggest simply by their changeless presences that there may be traditions and behavioral conventions that one can rely on in a pinch...
...majest?? for the Italian consul, Amadeo Barletta, to break the tobacco monopoly of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. It was lèse majest?? against Benito Mussolini, a greater dictator than Trujillo, when Trujillo clapped Barletta into jail and confiscated his tobacco company on dubious charges of an assassination plot (TIME, May 13). Last week a third and greater act of lèse majest?? was in the making, as Mussolini moved to get his consul out of jail...
...taken serious offense at Mr. Minnigerode's chats about Burr and his friends, but when he came to delineating Rachel Jackson, the wife of a President of the U. S. and an idol of the state of Tennessee, he was guilty of lèse-majest?...